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about 200 feet; diameter from east to' west, about 65 feet. This work 

 is almost obliterated. It is distant from the river half a mile, and ele- 

 vated above it about 80 feet (Group A, No. 8). 



Group B. 



The works comprising this group are situated, part in Sects. 15 and 

 21, Columbia township, and part in Sects. 14 and 20 of Spencer town- 

 ship. Immediatel}- south of Red Bank station, L. M. R. R.. commences 

 a gravely ridge, having an average elevation of about 40 to 50 feet above 

 the general level of the surrounding plateau, and extending in a south- 

 westerly direction for thi-ee fourths of a mile along the course of the 

 Wooster turnpike. On this ridge, and on the estate of Dr. O. IM. Lang- 

 don, we have a tumulus (Group B, No. 1) and a circular excavation. 

 The tumulus has an elevation of nine feet,and a circumference of 200 feet 

 at base. It has not been explored, and is covered with young forest 

 trees. 300 yards southwest of this tumulus, is the circular excavation 

 (Group B, No. 2). Its diameter north to south is 40 feet, east to 

 west 44 feet, depth 7 feet. An old settler related that 50 years ago re- 

 mains of stakes or palisades could be seen surrounding this excava- 

 tion. The southeast slope of the ridge near this excavation, is 

 covered with huge conglomerate masses, under which are two small 

 caves (Group B, two asterisks) — no evidence exist about them as to their 

 having served as habitations. 



Half mile west of this ridge is an elevated plateau sloping to south- 

 ward, until it coincides with the first bottom of the Little ^Nfiami River. 

 On this plateau, at its highest elevation just south of the Little Miami 

 Railroad, and at the junction of Oak and Elmwood Avenues of the 

 Linwood Land Go's, subdivision, was a mound (No. 3, Group B), re- 

 centljr removed in the grading done by the Laud Co. The superinten- 

 dent of the grading, informs me that there were two circular layers of 

 human remains, one near the general level of the ground, and one 

 three feet above the lower one; he gives its height as eight feet, and its 

 circumference at base of 200 feet. The Hon. Judge Cox states to me 

 that this mound was enclosed by a circular work that had a diameter 

 of 800 feet. / 



South of this mound, distant 200 3-ards, was a mound which was ex- 

 plored 50 years ago (si-te marked b}'^ an asterisk). My informant, Mr- 

 Riggle, remembers that in a kind of a stone coffin, as he describes it, 

 were two skeletons lying side by side, with their feet to the east, and 

 that their faces were covered with laj-ers of mica. 



The five acres west of those mounds, are known as the " Indian Burj-- 

 ing Ground" (Group B, No, 4), now subdivided into lots by the 

 Linwood Land Co. The square bounded by Elmwood, Walnut, Oak 

 and Maplewood avenues, covers the greater part of the ancient ceme- 



